I just made this soup (actually I made it yesterday and ate it today) and it’s delicious. Ridiculously tasty, thinking of it’s just beans. And spices. It goes straight into the staple recipe list. Yum!

“What this — as Tennessee W.’s Blanche DuBois says, “young, young, young man” can do for the country and the world is yet to be revealed.
But for starters isn’t it nice having someone in the Oval Office with smarts? And class?
And syntax?”
Dick Cavett at NYTimes.com.

“I’ve been trying to live in Manhattan,” she says, “and I do love it but it’s been complicated for me because I get very claustrophobic. And so we bought a boat, so you always have that option that you can just sail out of it. So it’s more like that’s my home, the boat.”
Björk
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Beautiful illustrations (look at her paintings too) by Finnish artist Anna Emilia Laitinen. If I ever get to have a book cover I’ll want one of her drawings on it.

I’m really enjoying habit, another collaborative photo project.

I couldn’t watch the inauguration live even though I’d planned to. But watching it online later I had tears in my eyes and goosebumps all over my body. In the well of depressing news Obama is a bright light. This day carries a meaning far beyond America.
Habitual posted the text of Obama’s speech.
If you want [...]

if leo had a dream. This is such a beautiful photo.

I’m loving issue 9 of this joy+ride. Reading about the heat of summer in Melbourne is like a shot of vitamines. The text and drawings play so well together.